Healthcare providers are looking to medical devices to play a new role in hospital care, providing a whole-patient view of health through technologies that talk to each other and help clinicians make decisions about treatment.
Hospital Care
The new cognitive dissonance of medicine
The 30-something teacher stood before a room of leaders, neatly dressed, wearing black-rimmed hipster glasses, articulate, poised. He never stuttered, his words precise. His expertise was educating big rooms of leaders – it was all he knew:summa cum laude, three majors, and impeccable youthful credentials for a corporate consultant. Meeting rooms and corporate board rooms were his theater and comfort zone, flip charts and PowerPoint graphics his instruments.
Patient Safety: Bill Clinton urges healthcare stakeholders not to leave patients “sicker and broke”
Former President Bill Clinton addressed an audience of healthcare industry stakeholders last night, asking them to help leave the system better than they found it through coordinated efforts to leverage technology and expertise in the interest of patient health.
Patient safety: Kiani “blown away” by pledges to open up healthcare data
What a new doctor learned about medical mistakes from her mom’s death
by Marshall Allen, ProPublica
For Dr. Elaine Goodman, the strongest lessons in patient safety didn’t come from her training. They came from her mother’s death.
Goodman had just finished her first year of medical school when she found herself spending months at the bedside of her 63-year-old mom, who was battling breast cancer in the hospital.
The costs of not-so-shared decision making
This week’s New England Journal of Medicine contains a perspective piece by Emily Oshima Lee, M.A., and Ezekiel J. Emanuel, M.D., Ph.D. entitled "Shared Decision Making to Improve Care and Reduce Costs." The original paragraph of the piece sets the tone:
Children with medical complexity: Caught in a political and economic crossfire
By Jay Berry
The punitive evolution of board certification
On folding
Every surgeon has been there at some time in their career.
It’s a horrible, exhausting feeling.
Yet one we all must come to grips with: knowing when to stop.
Hackers holding hospital records hostage, officials say
A Florida healthcare center is the target of a cyber-attack, findings its patient records held hostage for a $4,000 ransom demanded by criminal hackers.
Russian cyber criminals are demanding the ransom in return for decrypting the patient record database, which the targeted Gold Coast clinic says wasn’t stolen, according to ABC News.
Technology professionals are attempting to recover the server, which has been taken offline amid the investigation, but some are warning that the records may be all but lost.
A novel idea for managing consent
In 2008, I wrote about representing privacy preferences in an XML form that I called the Consent Assertion Markup language (CAML).